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Kaeti Hinck/The Mirror
Junior Luke Sterbick mops the basketball court during halftime at the women's game Wednesday night. Sterbick is
one of 120 student employees at the Elmen Center that are necessary to maintain the hours the facility is available. Possible wage increase
puts student jobs at risk
By Katy Nelson
Mirror Staff Writer
South Dakota's legislature is
considering a bill that will raise
the minimum wage in South
Dakota in increments over the
next three years. This increase
may affect the number of stu-dent
jobs on Augustana's cam-pus.
If HB207 passes, the mini-mum
wage will go up from
the current $5.15 an hour by
70 cents each year until 2009,
when it would cap out at $7.25,
according to the South Dakota
Factsheet on Minimum Wage.
The bill has passed through the
state Senate and is waiting for
approval or rejection from the
House of Representatives.
All the student workers at
Augustana get paid at least
$5.75 an hour with over half
of them making more than
that, said Emily Studenski, as-sistant
director of financial aid
and coordinator of work-study
programs. The minimum wage
bill would establish $5.85 as the
least amount a person can earn
in 2007, going up to $6.55 in
2008.
Augustana budgets $560,000
per year to fund the work-study
program, said Loren Koepsell,
vice president for finance and
administration at Augustana.
This includes federal and col-lege
matched funds. There
are 547 student workers on
campus and they each work
about eight hours a week. Of
See WAGE, page 12
Beth Rasmussen
THE AUGUSTANA
Friday
March 2, 2007 MIRROR Vol. XCV
No. 13
ESTABLISHED 19081 SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
ASA looks
to increase
activity fees
By Ashley White
Mirror Staff Writer
Senators of the Augustana
Student Association (ASA) vot-ed
last week to recommend in-creasing
student activity fees by
$14 next year.
Full-time Augustana students
currently pay $118 per semester
in student activity fees. ASA is
then allocated 48 percent of that
money, which
it divides
among the
Union Board
of Governors
(UBG) and
various stu-dent
organi-zations.
The large
student groups on campus, UBG
in particular, use this money
to bring in speakers and well-known
bands to Augustana.
The other 52 percent of stu-dent
activity fees funds over 20
smaller programs, including
health services, New Student
Orientation, residence life pro-grams
and the music and theater
departments.
The issue of increasing stu-dent
activity fees came to the
attention of the senate this past
January by the Vikings Varieties
committee, which asked for the
option of providing free tickets
to Varieties for Augustana stu-dents.
"We chose not to do that,"
ASA President senior Beth Ras-mussen
said. ASA instead de-cided
to vote on raising student
activity fees for other reasons,
especially for the smaller groups
on campus.
"We wanted to have that lee-
See FEES, page 12
Potential
honor code
explored
By Emily Schirmer
Mirror Copy Editor
Students may soon be the en-forcers
in patrolling academic
dishonesty in the classroom.
A group of students, faculty
and administrators is reviewing
a proposal of a campuswide hon-or
code that would appear at the
end of every paper, test and quiz
to ensure academic honesty.
According to senior Maren
Gilbertson, a student on the re-view
board, the timeline of the
proposed honor code is "still
in its initial stages." The board
plans to begin research on the
idea with faculty this spring and
have a code to present to the co-curricular
council and faculty by
December 2007.
Although no specific incident
prompted the program, it has
been suggested in past meetings
concerning the academic hon-esty
policy, which is reviewed
every four to six years.
"It challenges students to
assume responsibility for the
academic integrity of the class
they're sitting in:' said Jim Bies,
vice president of student ser-vices,
who endorses the honor
code.
In the 2005-06 academic year,
there were 11 documented cases
of academic dishonesty. The
2006-07 year has had one docu-mented
case that was reported as
of Dec. 1.
"I think something needs to
be done," said sophomore An-gela
Shubert, another student
on the review board. "I think the
stats are disheartening."
Many colleges similar to Au-gustana
currently have an honor
code including Luther College,
See HONOR CODE, page 11
New marketing campaign features faculty
By Ma rit Karbowski
Mirror Guest Writer
Augustana professors as-tounded
Julia Renner, a pro-spective
student from Shorev-iew,
Minn., when she came to
campus for a visit.
"They were so welcoming;
they remembered my name
and cared about my goals,"
Renner said.
Augustana students and fac-ulty
are impressed with the ap-proach
that Augustana's office
of marketing and communica-tion
has taken to create greater
awareness for the college in the
community and region.
New advertisements high-light
Augustana professors with
statements like, "Professors so
great, you'll fight for front row
seats" and "Great professors.
Inspired faith."
Bob Preloger, vice president
See MARKETING, page 12
Karyn Schubert/The Mirror
Three reasons you
should read this issue:
1 The skinny on National
Eating Disorders Week.
Pages 5
2 Women upset first
round of NCC.
Page 8
3 What exactly is Turkey
Fever?
Page 9

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Kaeti Hinck/The Mirror
Junior Luke Sterbick mops the basketball court during halftime at the women's game Wednesday night. Sterbick is
one of 120 student employees at the Elmen Center that are necessary to maintain the hours the facility is available. Possible wage increase
puts student jobs at risk
By Katy Nelson
Mirror Staff Writer
South Dakota's legislature is
considering a bill that will raise
the minimum wage in South
Dakota in increments over the
next three years. This increase
may affect the number of stu-dent
jobs on Augustana's cam-pus.
If HB207 passes, the mini-mum
wage will go up from
the current $5.15 an hour by
70 cents each year until 2009,
when it would cap out at $7.25,
according to the South Dakota
Factsheet on Minimum Wage.
The bill has passed through the
state Senate and is waiting for
approval or rejection from the
House of Representatives.
All the student workers at
Augustana get paid at least
$5.75 an hour with over half
of them making more than
that, said Emily Studenski, as-sistant
director of financial aid
and coordinator of work-study
programs. The minimum wage
bill would establish $5.85 as the
least amount a person can earn
in 2007, going up to $6.55 in
2008.
Augustana budgets $560,000
per year to fund the work-study
program, said Loren Koepsell,
vice president for finance and
administration at Augustana.
This includes federal and col-lege
matched funds. There
are 547 student workers on
campus and they each work
about eight hours a week. Of
See WAGE, page 12
Beth Rasmussen
THE AUGUSTANA
Friday
March 2, 2007 MIRROR Vol. XCV
No. 13
ESTABLISHED 19081 SIOUX FALLS, S.D.
ASA looks
to increase
activity fees
By Ashley White
Mirror Staff Writer
Senators of the Augustana
Student Association (ASA) vot-ed
last week to recommend in-creasing
student activity fees by
$14 next year.
Full-time Augustana students
currently pay $118 per semester
in student activity fees. ASA is
then allocated 48 percent of that
money, which
it divides
among the
Union Board
of Governors
(UBG) and
various stu-dent
organi-zations.
The large
student groups on campus, UBG
in particular, use this money
to bring in speakers and well-known
bands to Augustana.
The other 52 percent of stu-dent
activity fees funds over 20
smaller programs, including
health services, New Student
Orientation, residence life pro-grams
and the music and theater
departments.
The issue of increasing stu-dent
activity fees came to the
attention of the senate this past
January by the Vikings Varieties
committee, which asked for the
option of providing free tickets
to Varieties for Augustana stu-dents.
"We chose not to do that,"
ASA President senior Beth Ras-mussen
said. ASA instead de-cided
to vote on raising student
activity fees for other reasons,
especially for the smaller groups
on campus.
"We wanted to have that lee-
See FEES, page 12
Potential
honor code
explored
By Emily Schirmer
Mirror Copy Editor
Students may soon be the en-forcers
in patrolling academic
dishonesty in the classroom.
A group of students, faculty
and administrators is reviewing
a proposal of a campuswide hon-or
code that would appear at the
end of every paper, test and quiz
to ensure academic honesty.
According to senior Maren
Gilbertson, a student on the re-view
board, the timeline of the
proposed honor code is "still
in its initial stages." The board
plans to begin research on the
idea with faculty this spring and
have a code to present to the co-curricular
council and faculty by
December 2007.
Although no specific incident
prompted the program, it has
been suggested in past meetings
concerning the academic hon-esty
policy, which is reviewed
every four to six years.
"It challenges students to
assume responsibility for the
academic integrity of the class
they're sitting in:' said Jim Bies,
vice president of student ser-vices,
who endorses the honor
code.
In the 2005-06 academic year,
there were 11 documented cases
of academic dishonesty. The
2006-07 year has had one docu-mented
case that was reported as
of Dec. 1.
"I think something needs to
be done," said sophomore An-gela
Shubert, another student
on the review board. "I think the
stats are disheartening."
Many colleges similar to Au-gustana
currently have an honor
code including Luther College,
See HONOR CODE, page 11
New marketing campaign features faculty
By Ma rit Karbowski
Mirror Guest Writer
Augustana professors as-tounded
Julia Renner, a pro-spective
student from Shorev-iew,
Minn., when she came to
campus for a visit.
"They were so welcoming;
they remembered my name
and cared about my goals,"
Renner said.
Augustana students and fac-ulty
are impressed with the ap-proach
that Augustana's office
of marketing and communica-tion
has taken to create greater
awareness for the college in the
community and region.
New advertisements high-light
Augustana professors with
statements like, "Professors so
great, you'll fight for front row
seats" and "Great professors.
Inspired faith."
Bob Preloger, vice president
See MARKETING, page 12
Karyn Schubert/The Mirror
Three reasons you
should read this issue:
1 The skinny on National
Eating Disorders Week.
Pages 5
2 Women upset first
round of NCC.
Page 8
3 What exactly is Turkey
Fever?
Page 9